On Court: Joins Stags Tennis after a decorated
junior and high school career...ranked as high as #20 in Southern
California Boys 18s, and #112 nationally on
tennisrecruiting.net...played #1 singles for four years and was
team captain for three at Francis Parker HS, where he led his team
to one CIF title and three semifinals...also league individual CIF
champion 2008-2010 and All San Diego Section 1st Team
selection...as a freshman started strong at the
USTA / ITA West Regionals, defeating 7th seed and national ITA
Player To Watch Deven Nerenberg (Santa Cruz) and 15th
seed Sabel (Pomona-Pitzer), before losing in three sets to
defending champion Nick Ballou of Cal Lutheran in the
quarters...partnered fellow San Diegan freshman Cameron Bernhardt
in the doubles, where the unseeded duo defeated teams from Chapman,
Pomona-Pitzer, and Redlands to advance to the semis...finshed the
fall with singles rankings of #45 nationally and #12 in the west,
and a doubles ranking of #8 in the west...began the spring at #4
and #5 singles and #3 doubles (with Wei), winning his first three
singles duals and two of three doubles duals...sat out nearly five
weeks from Feb 25 to March 30 with Mono, then returned against #7
Middlebury...was the Stags' most consistent singles player, going
19-3 overall and 14-1 in duals...his three losses came at the hands
of NCAA singles finalist Nick Ballou (twice) and Lunghino of
Middlebury...partnered Wood at #1 and #2 doubles after starting the
spring with Wei, going 9-7 in duals and 14-9 overall...Marino's
19-3 singles mark is good for the 5th best singles season winning
percentage in Stags Tennis history...Marino also earned SCIAC
Athlete of the Week honors the week of May 7-13, for his role
in both of CMS' NCAA opening round victories...also named to
2nd Team All-SCIAC for his exceptional play at the #4
singles and #1 and #2 doubles positions during the regular
season...as a sophomore continued his consistently
strong play, moving up from #4 to #3 singles...reached the round of
16 at the USTA / ITA West Regionals after winning two singles
matches, eventually falling in three sets to Santa Cruz's
Halabi...lost in the first round of doubles with partner Mac
Cahill...started strong in the spring, playing #1 singles on
opening day and getting a straight set win against Arizona
Christian...went on to win his first eight duals, playing mostly at
the #3 spot...slower start on the doubles side, playing #2 doubles
with new partner Alex Lane...the pair lost two of their first three
duals before moving to #3 and then winning 18 of their next
19...Marino would prove to be one of the Stags most prolific
performers in both singles and doubles, going 23-4 in singles
duals, and 24-5 in doubles duals enroute to overall marks of 29-6
in singles and 26-7 in doubles...he also reached the Ojai singles
semis, losing to eventual champ Nick Ballou of Cal Lutheran...was
one of four Stags named to the All-SCIAC Team as a 2nd Team
honoree...also an ITA Player To Watch nominee from the
West Region...his outstanding play in both singles and doubles put
him back in the CMS Stags Tennis records for the second straight
year...his 35 singles matches played and 29 wins land him16th in
the matches played category and third in wins for a single
season...he now appears twice on the single season winning
percentage list, in seventh place for his 2012 record of 19-3, and
in tenth place for his 2013 record of 29-6...Marino and partner
Alex Lane place seventh in singles season wins as a team with their
24-6 mark...as a junior spent fall semester in
Copenhagen, Denmark as part of CMC's study abroad program...lost
opening dual match at #2 singles to start the spring, but then
reeled off ten straight wins at #2 and #3 without losing a
set...first dual match loss was to UCLA's Mackenzie MacDonald,
after Marino rolled an ankle at 4-all, thirty-all in the
first...finished the match losing 6-4, 6-2, but had to miss the
next 10 days...went on to win another nine singles dual matches
consecutively without losing a set, before falling in straight sets
in the NCAA team quarters to Hopkins' Tanner Brown...was 20-4 in
singles dual matches...equally brilliant in tournament play,
reaching the final of the D3 event at Ojai, where he defeated Cal
Lu's Cardenas in the quarters and Whittier's Konstantinov in the
semis, before losing to Wood in the championship...was one of four
Stags to qualify for the NCAA singles tourney, where he advanced to
the semis without the loss of more than four games in a set...fell
to eventual champion Joey Fritz in the semis...partnered senior
captain Pereverzin in doubles and played #2 and #3 all season,
where the duo went 18-4 in duals...earned 1st Team
All-SCIAC honors as well as ITA All-American singles
honors...named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District
Team...SCIAC Athlete of the Week for week of May
13...completed 2014 with overall records of 27-6 in singles and
18-5 in doubles and final rankings of #3 in the West and #7
nationally in singles, and #10 in the West with Perevezin in
doubles...his 75 career singles wins place him in the 12th position
all-time heading into his senior year...his singles records in his
first three years are each among the fourteen best in CMS Tennis
history in terms of winning percentage.

Tools: Babolat Pure Drive strung
with Solinco Outlast at 55 lbs

Personal: One of three freshmen Stags from San
Diego...multi-sport athlete who started tennis at age 5, but also
played baseball, basketball and ran track...quit track in middle
school after high jumping over protective mat and breaking collar
bone, scapula, and two ribs...played soccer for eight years,
including his freshman and sophomore years at Francis
Parker...enjoys all genres of movies and hosts weekly movie night
in his dorm room...earned ITA Scholar Athlete honors as a
sophomore for attaining a GPA of 3.5 or better.

Favorite Stag: Tom Isaak (CMC '91 -
golf)...first golfer in the CMS Hall of Fame, now a tennis coach at
St. Augustine HS